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    The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which Augustine of Hippo referred to as The Golden Ass (Asinus aureus), is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive...
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    known from the novel The Golden Ass, also known as Metamorphoses, written by the Roman philosopher and orator Apuleius in the 2nd century. In the myth, she...
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    Apuleius (category Priests from the Roman Empire)
    picaresque novel the Metamorphoses, otherwise known as The Golden Ass. It is the only Latin novel that has survived in its entirety. It relates the adventures...
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  • (also called L'asino d'oro; English: The Golden Ass) is an unfinished satirical poem of eight cantos written by the Italian political scientist and writer...
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    Lamia (section Golden Ass)
    employed in Horace's Odes, to banter Lucius Aelius Lamia the praetor. In Apuleius's The Golden Ass appear two Thessalian "witches", Meroe and her sister...
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    Picaresque novel (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    published during the 1st-2nd century AD, such as Satyricon by Petronius and The Golden Ass by Apuleius had a relevant influence on the picaresque genre...
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    1.37.2; Grimal, s.v. Phytalus, p. 373. Apuleius, The Golden Ass 5.28-31 Apuleius, The Golden Ass 6.1-4 Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.4.7; Grimal, s.v. Philomelus...
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    Isis (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
    Osiris. In The Golden Ass Isis says "my one person manifests the aspects of all the gods and goddesses" and that she is "worshipped by all the world under...
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    The Golden Ass), written in the 2nd century AD by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (or Platonicus). The tale concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love...
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    "Cupid and Psyche". The Golden Ass. Penguin Classics. Robinson, James M. (2007) [1st publ. 1978]. "On the Origin of the World". The Nag Hammadi Scriptures...
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    named after the goddess. Gurney, Hudson (2008). The Works of Apuleius, Comprising the Metamorphoses, Or Golden Ass, the God of Socrates, the Florida, and...
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    Mysteries of Isis (category Ancient Egypt in the Western imagination)
    from the Roman Empire refer to the Isis mysteries, but the only source to describe them is a work of fiction, the novel The Golden Ass, written in the second...
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    tale was influenced by the story of Petrus Gonsalvus as well as Ancient Greek stories such as "Cupid and Psyche" from The Golden Ass, written by Lucius Apuleius...
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  • narrative voices". The best complete example of this would be Apuleius's The Golden Ass, a Roman novel written in the second century of the Common Era. Apuleius...
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    "Cupid and Psyche" in The Golden Ass, which gave rise to similar animal bridegroom cycles such as "Beauty and the Beast". The White Bear approaches a...
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    Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (category Works based on The Golden Ass)
    after awakening the lifeless Psyche with a kiss. The story of Cupid and Psyche is taken from Lucius Apuleius' Latin novel The Golden Ass, and was popular...
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    Satyricon (redirect from The Satyricon)
    handsome sixteen-year-old boy. It is the second most fully preserved Roman novel, after the fully extant The Golden Ass by Apuleius, which has significant...
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    such as the Roman writer Petronius, author of the Satyricon (late 1st century CE), and the Numidian writer Apuleius, author of The Golden Ass (late 2nd...
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    61 and Apuleius's The Golden Ass, couples to be married were both wreathed on the occasion. To mark the occasion of a new birth, the household would hang...
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    Apuleius, The Golden Ass, Book XI:1–4. Apuleius: The Golden Ass, Book XI:5–6. See also: https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/TheGoldenAssXI.php...
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    Greece 5. 19. 5 ff Apuleius, The Golden Ass 4. 30 ff (trans. Adlington & Gaselee) (Latin prose C2nd AD) Apuleius, The Golden Ass 10. 30–33 (trans. Adlington...
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    versions of The Twelve Caesars and The Golden Ass remain popular for their clarity and entertaining style. Graves was awarded the 1934 James Tait Black Memorial...
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    Rose (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    and stained the flower red with her blood. Book Eleven of the ancient Roman novel The Golden Ass by Apuleius contains a scene in which the goddess Isis...
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  • My Old Ass is a 2024 American comedy film written and directed by Megan Park. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2024, and...
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    Anubis (redirect from Anup the Baptiser)
    " In Book XI of The Golden Ass by Apuleius, there is evidence that the worship of this god was continued in Rome through at least the 2nd century. Indeed...
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    The Golden Ass of Apuleius are ribald classics from ancient Greece and Rome. Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale" from his Canterbury Tales and The...
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  • of the earliest stories of this type is that of Cupid and Psyche, a story originally from Metamorphoses (also called The Golden Ass), written in the 2nd...
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  • Tits 'n Ass is the twenty-fifth and final studio album by Dutch rock band Golden Earring, released on 11 May 2012. It was their first studio album since...
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    penned the libretto to Randolph Peters' opera: The Golden Ass, based on The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius, just like that written by one of the characters...
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    acting in The BFG (2016) and Ready Player One (2018). He also acted in Dunkirk (2017), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), Don't Look Up (2021), The Outfit...
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